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United Nations supplies arrived in Deir-ez-Zor city yesterday where 93,500 people are in urgent need of assistance. After being besieged by ISIL for three years, the civilian population faced deteriorating conditions while being deprived of their rights to humanitarian aid and freedom of movement.
The UN supplies, delivered...

On 30 July the first ever inter-agency convoy reached the besieged town of Nashabiyeh in eastern Ghouta, Rural Damascus, in Syria. The aid supplies were delivered by the UN and Syria Arab Red Crescent and reached 7,200 people. This followed a humanitarian convoy on 29 July to 33,000 people in hard-to-reach Al...

Three years after the adoption of a Security Council resolution on relief delivery across border lines in Syria, cross-border operations continue to play a pivotal role in the delivery of life-saving assistance to millions of Syrians.
“Representing over a third of all humanitarian deliveries, the role of cross-border...

Hoda (far right) during a soial counselling group session.
Hoda [1] is a social worker in the Al-Qahtaniya district of rural Quamishli, in north-east Syria. She runs group and individual counselling sessions for female patients who initially came to the Reproductive Health Clinic for treatment. When there is a large group...

ERC O'Brien's Statement to the Security Council on Syria
A UN convoy drives past destroyed buildings in the old city of Homs, Syria. March 2017. Photo: UNICEF/Ebo
Mr. President,
The cruel conflict in Syria continues to tear families apart, inflicts brutal suffering on the innocent, and leaves them pleading for...